The Gilded Age

The period of economic growth in the United States after the Civil War is called _________________.

• The Gilded Age

• The Great Compromise

• Bimetallism

• Progressive Movement

What provided a direct route from East to West and the government land to sell?

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Homestead Act

• Farmers Reform

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Requirements:

*live on the land for 5 years

*make improvements to the land

These requirements were part of the ____________________.

• The Gilded Age

• Homestead Act 1862

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• Farmers Reform

Native Americans were forced to move to smaller reservations further west and

assimilate to American culture. This was a result of the ____________.

• Native Americans-Dawes Act 1887

• Native Americans-Indian Wars

• The Gilded Age

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Which battle is referred to as "Custer's Last Stand"?

• Battle of Little Big Horn

• Native Americans-Indian Wars

• Siege of Fort Sumter

• War of 1812

The Battle of Little Big Horn was significant because it was the end of the Indian Wars.

How did the events of Wounded Knee bring the Indian Wars to an end?

• 300 unarmed Natives were killed

• There were food shortages and loss of slaves

• 3 days of fighting and 100,000 died

• Confederates wanted to drive out the Union soldiers from the South

Due to job competition, what act was passed to restrict Chinese immigration

to the United States?

• Chinese Exclusion Act

  1882

• Native Americans-Dawes Act 1887

• Homestead Act 1862

• Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

An economic system that is characterized by private ownership of property and

the use of that property to make a profit for the individual is called _________________.

• Bimetallism

• Monopoly

• Capitalism

• Farmers Reform

Complete control over an industry is called a ____________.

• Monopoly

• Capitalism

• Farmers Reform

• Bimetallism

This individual had a monopoly over steel and invested in railroad and oil companies.

He sold his company to JP Morgan.

He used the Bessemer Steel Process to make more products for less money.

Who is he?

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• JP Morgan